How to Win at Espionage?

[Zaukodar]

I'm trying to get the achievement for making a Darlok colony revolt, but at every single point my spies are found and killed. I've gotten all the spy-related tech upgrades, the stealthy and shapeshifter bonuses, etc. etc. but it still isn't enough. Is Espionage just bugged, or is there a technique beyond RNG to get it to work?

[Rez Elwin]

I hvae only used espenoge once so far, not to victory just testing it out, I was the Marrshan, and more often than not I was succeding, even made one colony revolt before defeating the enemy, which were then Bulrathi, I also found almost all their spies, got the Two achivement relating to them(killing and deporting).

The Darlok do have the same Steath and shapshifter bonuses, thier race is desgined with Espionage in mind, prehaps they have unseen bonuses to it, are you spying on anyone else with difffrent results?

[Mo'Drogon]

Try to look for a Darlok world that was just built. It will not have all the spy defence buildings.

[Roderick]

I just played a game where the Bulrathi beat the Orion Guardian one turn before me. I thougth, I was in the lead for tech so every any tech my spies could steal would be one of the Orion-tech.
So I set all my spies to a newly or small colony of the Bulrathi.
Stealing tech was only "middle", but every but one spy was caught. And the remaining one got a boring tech for me. -.-

Don't know how the rng works, but only one of all spies made it while the danger was middle at max. Espionage doesn't seem very relieable right now.
(I still think it is better than in MoO 2, where you could rob one naked by taking one tech every turn. xD)

[Davor]

I get more failures than successes. More frustrating is it seems the AI is poisining me like crazy and I have all the spy buildings and a spy defending as well, and they are still successful.

[Imricdaelf120741]

You have two options.

1: Stage it and create a small galaxy and play against the Darloks so you find them soon and have more time (and a higher chance) to incite revolt.
2: Just keep trying, even with bonuses a revolt has the lowest chance of being successful out of all the spy actions.

I earned the achievement in a small galaxy playing against 3 other races about 3/4 of the way through that particular match.